About the ProgSquad Consultancy Team

Meet the ProgSquad Consultancy Team!

Message from the CEO

We are Pragmatic!

We believe the global village is the meeting place for people & technology.We empower a future where innovation & operational excellence go hand in hand.We facilitate the impactful blending of domain mastery with performance management.We advocate for pragmatic leadership.

Iulia Dobre-Trifan

We challenge the L&D field of professional services through highly customized B2B projects for leading companies in high-tech industries.

We drive the market through technical expertise and a unique mix of management best practices & people management proprietary solutions.

Thanks to our objectives-driven strategic approach to systems' growth & development, we turn our extensive skillsets into valuable results starting with key individuals, up to company-wide sustainable transformation.

ProgSquad in a Nutshell

Our Vision

We are Commited!

1. OBSERVE

Each context in its specific detail level.

2. ANALYZE

Facts, status quo, opportunities for growth.

3. DESIGN

Solutions matching the observed and analyzed realities.

4. ASSESS

Solutions' applicability, sustainability, risks.

5. Kick off multiple stages projects

With visible, valuable results at each milestone!

Our Team

We are Efficient!

Ciprian Dobre-TrifanTechnical & Product Management Consultant & Coach, Managing Partner

In over 13 years of working as a trainer, developer, project manager, technical solutions and teams architect, I’ve learned that mastery in software engineering cannot be achieved only through excellent technical skills. I challenge you to discover an entire universe of creative solutions and intriguing problems that involve people and teams in the projects you’re working on.

Iulia Dobre-TrifanChange Management Consultant, Executive Coach, Managing Partner

Leaders face challenges consisting more and more in successfully balancing between people and results, vision and implementation, global competition and fast changing business contexts. For over 12 years, I've been working with leaders and leadership teams on exciting projects that shape the marketplace, as we know it. I specialize and focus on learning and boosting performance, at individual, team and company level.

Our Skills

We are Multi-disciplinary!

CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANCY

Lead a successful change management strategy, with all the capabilities, policies and processes required for Initiating, Planning, Implementing, Monitoring & Controlling your organizational change project.

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PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANCY

Build a solid Product Management Strategy by Designing, Building, Modernizing, Maintaining and Managing an R&D Centre of Excellence and enhance your product’s features to the maximum.

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TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
CONSULTANCY

In a world where the largest taxi firms own no cars, the most popular media companies create no content, the world’s most valuable retailers carry no stock and the world’s largest accommodation providers own no property, ProgSquad's Technical Management Consultancy covers all capability areas critical for ensuring your business’s growth and sustainability.

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WHAT THEY SAYTESTIMONIALSOUR CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS

Antonio Pereira, Domain Owner @ METRO Systems

“Ciprian Dobre-Trifan has an outstanding knowledge and experience about wide scope of technologies (especially Open Source tools for automation and best practices), design patterns (from tiny microservices to enterprise solutions, api designs) and agile working methodologies (technology trainings, developer trainings, design trainings, working methodologies,...). He loves to question old patterns to also support the mind change for using new technologies, patterns and methodologies.
With his analytic skills he supported development teams to solve challenges on a methodical and pragmatical way.”

Diana Codreanu, Project Manager @ METRO Systems Romania

“We were about to start a big project in our company and it was essential for us to involve someone who has in-depth knowledge and experience in designing software architectures. We met Ciprian and he seemed to be the kind of person we were searching. In time he proved to be much more. Not only he’s mastering the architecture design mastery, but he also wants to help the others grow and he’s doing this through his Software Architecture Academy. The developers who participate in this program appreciate it as being pragmatic and insightful.

Ciprian has a small and strong team - Andrei and Iulia.They propose or take many initiatives in helping us defining MVPs through discovery workshops and individual coaching sessions.

Through everything they do I feel they really care about our project's success. We are fortunate to have them beside us in this journey.”

Eugen Muntean, Edition Center Director & GCS Operations Manager @ Axway Romania

“An excellent training program! Ideal for experienced programmers and architects. Very good materials and references. Discussions on design principles were highly appreciated by the students. Most of the knowledge presented could be applied in internal projects. It helped the students to make certain design decisions in their own projects.”

Cristian Silviu Dragomir, General Manager @ Bandai Namco Games România

“Throughout our collaboration, our partners from ProgSquad have consistently shown a high level of quality, professionalism and efficiency. Their strengths include an efficient and comprehensive approach to our requirements, the perfect combination of the practical part with the theory, the active implementation of efficient methods of analysis, but also accuracy in presenting the results and recommendations offered later.”

Adrian Moc, Bandai Namco Entertainment Romania

“I liked the fact that along the training were explained/presented to the entire team issues and solutions related with project management activities. Also it was an interactive training and the discussions addressed actual problems/issues.”

Diana Codreanu, Project Manager @ METRO Systems Romania

Mircea Idriceanu, Business, Risc & Financial Analysis Team Coordinator @ Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR)

“The course offered by ProgSquad helped us to understand the basics of UML. The presentation mode as well as the practical examples from the field of activity facilitated our understanding of the studied field. The collaboration with the ProgSquad team was very good throughout the training.”

Gabriel Cosmescu, Technical Support Manager @ Exe Software

“The learning process was facilitated by the fact that the trainers were able to identify our training needs and requirements, and proposed a personalized training program, adapted to our company and our organizational culture.”

Aurel Băloi, Consultant @ Intergraph Computer Services

“Their courses are interactive, engaging, and the atmosphere in the classroom is appropriate for learning. Each time, our team has gained from the experiences with ProgSquad and we would recommend them anytime for their professional skills, efficiency and especially the quality of the courses.”

Adina Lisandru, Senior HR Manager

“I was particularly attracted by the professionalism of the trainers, the interactive approach, the humor and the less conformist way of dialogue with the trainees. If you want to learn something useful, but have fun at the same time and why not, expand your network of friends, choose the solutions from ProgSquad! I have already included them in the training plan with the mention "favorites".”

Ioana Struțeanu, Project Manager @ Allevo

“They offered a complex course, combining technical and IT elements with business elements. The team of trainers managed to demonstrate their skills starting with the training period and continuing with the teaching and testing of knowledge. It was also a very inspired choice because they offered post-training counseling and assistance.”

Emanuel Șerban, Senior Software Developer in Test Engineering Department @ Dräxlmaier Group

“Among the advantages of participating in this course I mention, first of all, the increased weight of practical applications, which greatly helps in understanding the theoretical concepts, creating UML diagrams in Enterprise Architect, one of the best performing applications used in business process modeling, the interactivity and, last but not least, the practical experience of the trainer in the field of business analysis, thus managing to give concrete answers to the questions asked by the participants.”

Carmen Avram, Senior Business Consultant @ Siveco

“I was delighted by the large number of participants, which facilitated the observation of certain situations and unusual behaviors with which, sometimes or most of the times, we meet in daily life; when they happen to you they are "dramatic", when you hear them told by others you look at them differently and only then do you understand that in fact things are much simpler than we tend to perceive them and it is easier to understand that many situations can be solved in the most simple way and without much hassle.”

Marius, Software Systems Engineer @ ExtraNet Software & Networking

“I recommend ProgSquad programs to anyone who wants to learn immediately applicable, practical skills, aligned with professional quality standards.”

Cătălin Chivu, Business Developer @ Markmedia Network

“The most important aspects of a collaboration, in the current business context, are the confidence, professionalism and agility that your partner demonstrates. The colleagues at ProgSquad successfully met these criteria when needed.

The customer-oriented approach, the many areas of expertise, the programs adapted to the specific needs of the customers or the level of involvement that the trainers team have proved have brought the added value sought. Surely all this is only the beginning of a beautiful and long collaboration!”

Roxana Epure, General Manager @ CIEL Romania

“We started the collaboration with ProgSquad initially on small projects, specialized trainings, then customized training to our needs and then we continued to expand the collaboration until they became part of our team. The pluses we appreciated: initiative, involvement, availability over my expectation. Plus, a tool recommendation for almost anything you want to do, to do better, faster, more organized. Meaning more efficient.”

Claudiu Neacșu, Senior Software Engineer @ CIEL Romania

“I collaborated with Ciprian from his role as manager of the development department I am a part of. He distinguished himself through the ability to organize the activity, to establish the working procedures, to delegate responsibilities and to coordinate the collaboration between the teams. He also organized a series of internal trainings in which, among other things, the stages of product development and the quality conditions for the product and its documentation were defined. He was available when I needed suggestions for various new or unexpected situations. I can say that during this period, the organization of the activity went in a positive direction.”

George I, Team Lead @ HN Services România

“I liked the exchange of information on the problems encountered on other projects and the ideas on how to improve the situations discussed and exemplifying principles through less formal methods (comic strips). I realized the need for another approach in the manager-client relationship and I have learned from the introspection on the hierarchy of personal values and those I follow in the group I work with.”

Florian Perrot, Technical Director @ HN Services România

“This personalized training taking into account everyone's experience is a real plus.”

Ben Acevedo, Product Owner @ Bandai Namco Games US

“Very informative with excellent examples. Instructor stops to clarify
concepts and application of concepts as questions arise. I liked the impact
mapping workshop, it helped clarify our bottleneks and is a good solution.”

Florin Manolescu, PMO Manager @ Expert One Research (XOR)

“The emphasis was placed on the practical applications, which dominated the entire training program, which favored a better understanding of the theoretical concepts and at the same time represented an additional reason for the students to see the applicability, in their own projects, of the techniques and the methods learned.”